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Mix and Match Hardware You can use any hardware configuration if Each component has a Windows Server 2008 / R2 logo Servers, Storage, HBAs, MPIO, etc… It passes Validate It’s that simple! Connect your Windows Server 2008 / R2 logo’d hardware Pass every test in Validate It is now supported! If you make a change, just run Validate again Details:

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Hyper-V Live Migration Move a running VM from one host to another host with no downtime Client is not aware of the migration Maintain open TCP connections of the guest OS Clients stay connected Planned failover Failover Clustering still recovers VM from a disk in an unplanned failover

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Live Migration Entire VM memory copied Memory content is copied to new server Live Migrate May be additional incremental data copies until data on both nodes is essentially identical VHD

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Live Migration Session state is maintained No reconnections necessary Clients stay connected to “live” VM VHD Client directed to new host ARP issued to point routing devices to new node Old VM deleted after success

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Cluster Shared Volumes Distributed file access solution for Hyper-V Concurrent access to disk from any node VMs do not know their host VMs no longer bound to storage VMs can share a CSV disk to reduce LUNs VMs remain online during live migration Zero downtime!